by Alex Mennen 291 days ago | Vadim Kosoy, Patrick LaVictoire, Scott Garrabrant and Stuart Armstrong like this | link | parent This notion of dependency seems too binary to me. Concretely, let’s modify your example from the beginning so that $$P_3$$ must grant an extra $$10^{-10}$$ utility to either $$P_1$$ or $$P_2$$, and gets to decide which. Now, everyone’s utility depends on everyone’s actions, and the game is still zero-sum, so again, so any strategy profile with $$p=q$$ will be a stratified Pareto optimum. But it seems like $$P_1$$ and $$P_2$$ should ignore still ignore $$P_3$$.

 by Scott Garrabrant 291 days ago | link I agree with this. I think that the most interesting direction of future work is to figure out how to have better notions of dependency. I plan on writing some on this in the future, but basically we have not successfully figured out how to deal with this. reply

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